Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Gervase Wheeler Drawings & Prints silver weight is 48 grams

silver weight is 48 grams

The vessel having twin gilt bronze handles cast as fruiting grape vines and the urn is raised on a turned pedestal foot with a variegated dark green marble base

the plaque mounted in the original gilt bronze easel/frame

Hendrik Goltzius (1558-1617)

4" tall X 3" wide X 0

Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Gervase Wheeler Drawings & Prints silver weight is 48 gramsA fine antique sterling silver gilt early 19th century Vinaigrette, Birmingham, by Gervase Wheeler, 1839. This beautiful vinaigrette having fine engine turned decoration on all sides, with a shield shaped cartouche to the lid and an engraved floral clasp to the front. The silver gilt interior having a pierced and engraved hinged cover which would have received a sponge with aromatic scent to smell, rather than the foul smell of the city! Both the